This week here on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been a magical, spiritual experience for us.
Our tour with Paul was so enlightening and educational. Being an archeologist on the island and coming here from the age of 16, Paul has experienced so much. He has shared his stories of the energy of the island, his life and experiences here and we have found a kinship with him. Turns out him and his wife Ei have the same dream as myself. He is in the process of building a spiritual healing center on their land. When I first heard the words out of his mouth I quivered, since what he is doing is on the same lines with my dream- to create an intentional eco/spiritual/healing community in the South Pacific. We found out that we have the same ideas of life, we've read the same books and a deep, deep friendship has been born. I was introduced to his wife, Ei, a deeply spiritual, beautiful Rapa Nui woman who has the biggest heart I've ever encountered. We have spent hours talking and sharing our knowledge of healing. She has shared her life experiences with me as growing up on an island where she wasn't even allowed on 80% of the island because of Chile's illegal occupation. She shared that in 1889 the king of the island went to Chile to work out a treaty and was poisoned to death. Her great grandfather became the sub King. For fear of going to Chile, a captain from the Chilean government sailed to Rapa Nui and signed a treaty with the sub King. This treaty said that Chile would not take ANY land, but to act as a protectorate and help the island. The signed treaty was sent back to Chile but it was never to be seen or heard from again. The Rapa Nui people have asked for the treaty but there is no response. Chile has acted illegally and taken over Easter Island and forced their laws upon the Rapa Nui people.
Ei spoke of when she was a little girl; her adoptive parents were indentured servants to work on the sheep farm (which was the whole island other than Hanga Roa). They got a little money to buy supplies and some clothing. Ei wore some clothing and a gunny sack which is very uncomfortable. Her parents worked on the other side of the island during most of the week so her grandmother who was the medicine woman of the island, took care of her. Ei would miss her parents so much that her grandmother would take her on exertions around the island, introducing her to her ancestors (moai) and sleeping in caves which are plentiful here. She had a ball! So many stories she told me.
Ei also has fibromyalgia and has had it for 7 years which keep her housebound on morphine. One day I asked her if she wanted a healing and she said yes. I used my tools I learned at the Clairvoyant Healing Center of Hawaii (my spirit healing master) and worked on her for about 10 minutes. She felt so much better. So much so that she hasn't had any pain for 3 days! I'm astonished myself! She has the energy to travel and go to the states to see her doctor which they haven't been able to do because of the pain and she thinks she can cut down or off the morphine! This is the most astonishing thing that has happened on this trip. Jim has also done some talking with her which has led her to feel a shift and heal. I feel as though I'm on purpose and it makes me so warm and fuzzy inside. Paul is besides himself!
Paul has taken us on a wonderful tour of the Moai and sites around the island. Yesterday we visited a bunch of caves some that other tour guides don't know about. There ae hundreds on the island created by ancient lava tubes. Some were so small you had to crawl though areas of the cave. Some opened up to the ocean though a cliff with a 50 foot drop off. We are so glad we used Paul for the tour as he took us too many places that other tours wouldn't go through. The Rapa Nui used to hide in the caves when the slavers (Americans and Peruvians) sailed to the island. It was closer for the Americans than to get slaves in Africa and the Peruvians took many (including the king) to work the guano mines in Peru. Thousands of people would collect and hide in the caves and wait until the slavers left. Ei used to hide in them with her grandmother in the 60's because she wasn't allowed in the other areas of the island, not even to fish!
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